Teh One Who Knocks
05-30-2017, 12:16 PM
Alice Sholl for Metro.co.uk
http://i.imgur.com/xrUNmoxh.jpg
Few of us would pass up the opportunity to stay in a tree house.
But one that’s hanging 60ft up a cliff face? That’s a slightly different vibe.
A bunch of architects in Sweden have designed what they hope will be the future of housing – a collection of 50 square metre homes built into the walls of cliffs.
When viewed from a distance, they look relatively small and cute – but as you can see upon closer inspection, we’re talking about real-deal, three-storey houses up in the air here.
http://i.imgur.com/fC0PsOa.jpg
With modern, minimalistic interiors, the ‘NestinBox’ houses are a collaboration between Moderna Trähus (Modern Woodenhouses) and architects Elisabetta Gabrielli and Pontus Öhman
They’ll be built to house one to two people, and contain two and a half rooms, a kitchen and a living area.
Beats your damp, shoebox-sized room in London, no?
The idea behind building the properties is that they’re a solution to shrinking space and housing shortages in major cities – because they don’t require any land to build on.
http://i.imgur.com/b1cBSFo.jpg
Three floors for one person wouldn’t be half bad (Picture: Modern Woodenhouses/Elisabetta Gabrielli/Pontus Öhman)
Not horizontal land, anyway; as the team explains on its website, in northern Scandinavia and other mountainous parts of the world, there are plenty of cliff walls that could be utilised in this way:
‘In many big cities around the world buildable land is in shortage and commands high prices.
‘At the same time there is a great shortage of housing; the population is constantly increasing, there are problems with finding space for all of us and to buy land and build housing requires a lot of money.
http://i.imgur.com/0F6Ph0p.jpg
‘However, we need not necessarily build on the ground, we can learn from the animals.
‘Many animals, including birds, build their nests in trees, under roof tiles or in rock crevices – above the ground.
‘We, humans, could do the same – build our houses above the rare and expensive ground.’
The human birdhouses just appear to be a concept for now, though we dropped the architects a line to find out if they could become a reality soon.
Fingers crossed.
http://i.imgur.com/xrUNmoxh.jpg
Few of us would pass up the opportunity to stay in a tree house.
But one that’s hanging 60ft up a cliff face? That’s a slightly different vibe.
A bunch of architects in Sweden have designed what they hope will be the future of housing – a collection of 50 square metre homes built into the walls of cliffs.
When viewed from a distance, they look relatively small and cute – but as you can see upon closer inspection, we’re talking about real-deal, three-storey houses up in the air here.
http://i.imgur.com/fC0PsOa.jpg
With modern, minimalistic interiors, the ‘NestinBox’ houses are a collaboration between Moderna Trähus (Modern Woodenhouses) and architects Elisabetta Gabrielli and Pontus Öhman
They’ll be built to house one to two people, and contain two and a half rooms, a kitchen and a living area.
Beats your damp, shoebox-sized room in London, no?
The idea behind building the properties is that they’re a solution to shrinking space and housing shortages in major cities – because they don’t require any land to build on.
http://i.imgur.com/b1cBSFo.jpg
Three floors for one person wouldn’t be half bad (Picture: Modern Woodenhouses/Elisabetta Gabrielli/Pontus Öhman)
Not horizontal land, anyway; as the team explains on its website, in northern Scandinavia and other mountainous parts of the world, there are plenty of cliff walls that could be utilised in this way:
‘In many big cities around the world buildable land is in shortage and commands high prices.
‘At the same time there is a great shortage of housing; the population is constantly increasing, there are problems with finding space for all of us and to buy land and build housing requires a lot of money.
http://i.imgur.com/0F6Ph0p.jpg
‘However, we need not necessarily build on the ground, we can learn from the animals.
‘Many animals, including birds, build their nests in trees, under roof tiles or in rock crevices – above the ground.
‘We, humans, could do the same – build our houses above the rare and expensive ground.’
The human birdhouses just appear to be a concept for now, though we dropped the architects a line to find out if they could become a reality soon.
Fingers crossed.